Angela D Hunsicker LCSW PLLC

03/30/2026

Please sign up for some early spring connection and women centered wellness!! This coming weekend!!

03/06/2026

Dr. Santos dives into the helpfulness of self talk that can be applied to self regulation in challenging moments. Recently, Olympics athletes have also shared using this technique.

Ever caught yourself mid-conversation... with yourself?

Maybe you were replaying something someone said. Rehearsing your next meeting opener. Giving yourself a quiet "Come on, you've got this" before walking into something hard.

That inner voice isn't a quirk. Psychologists call it inner speech, and it's one of the most studied features of human cognition that most people know almost nothing about.

Ethan Kross at the University of Michigan has spent years studying these silent conversations. What he's found: they're not background noise. The way you talk to yourself shapes how you handle stress, how you make decisions, and how you show up when it counts.

One finding I keep thinking about: people who refer to themselves by name — "Come on, Laurie, you've got this" instead of "I've got this" — tend to create more distance from whatever's stressing them out. Same situation, different language, different experience.

Kross also found we don't just talk to ourselves — we rehearse conversations with other people, test out ideas before saying them, and use self-talk to work through tricky social moments.

So the next time you notice yourself mid-monologue: your brain is doing what it was built to do. The question is whether you're paying attention to what it's saying.

Kross, E., Bruehlman-Senecal, E., Park, J., Burson, A., Dougherty, A., Shablack, H., ... & Ayduk, O. (2014). Self-talk as a regulatory mechanism: how you do it matters. Journal of personality and social psychology, 106(2), 304.

03/02/2026

It's Social Work Month! Exciting news: the social work profession is projected to grow by 7% between 2022 and 2032, highlighting the increasing demand and importance of social workers in our communities. This growth underscores the vital role social workers play in supporting individuals, families, and communities.

02/21/2026

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Getting ready for social work month in March with some important information from the north.

02/20/2026

The science speaks in creating your dating profile! Thank you !

02/10/2026

So many benefits of this: the beginning of compromise, letting the other person know that you hear them, confirming that you're hearing them correctly, etc.

01/19/2026

https://nicenews.com/humanity/little-known-facts-martin-luther-king-jr/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Little-known+facts+about+MLK+-+20415606

This feels like a good year to sit with the history of MLK a little big longer.

We rounded up lesser-known facts about Martin Luther King Jr. (like him being a "Star Trek" fan) to shed more light on the activist’s life.

01/05/2026

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-the-7-essential-anxiety-disruptors-for/id1506503059?i=1000743497533 Thinking about how anxiety often shows up can be very helpful in identifying, understanding and addressing it. Thanks Lynn Lyons, Psychotherapist, Anxiety and Children

Podcast Episode · Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry · 01/02/2026 · 29m

12/20/2025

I'm highlighting -"Keeping high-need careers within reach". There are so many crucial ways to support therapists to keep them in business and available to everyone.

New LEAP Act Would End Unfair Loan Limits for & Other Grad Programs
The Loan Equity for Advanced Professionals Act (LEAP ACT H.R. 6574), introduced by Rep. Tim Kennedy (NY-26-D) on Dec 10th ensures graduate students can access the same federal student loan limits as “professional” students. This fixes a Department of Education policy that unfairly restricts borrowing for graduate programs like social work, nursing, and occupational therapy.

Watch the press conference we attended alongside members of Congress and other endorsing organizations: https://bit.ly/3MFvo88

Speakers highlighted social workers as essential professionals. The LEAP Act is cosponsored by 19 members of Congress.

11/25/2025

11/22/2025

I also love a good self reward or incentive post doing non/preferred tasks!

11/22/2025

It is often difficult to find a therapist for children and those who use Medicare insurance. This can impact care availability for decades.

Social workers spent decades building a profession grounded in advanced education, ethics, and real-world expertise. Now the Department of Education is proposing a definition of “professional degree” that shuts out social work and several other core professions. That change is more than bad policy. It threatens loan access, shrinks the pipeline, and sends a message that the work social workers do every day is somehow less professional.
A public comment period is coming, and we’ll be submitting formal comments and we’ll make it easy for you to do the same.

A degree in social work is a professional degree. It always has been. It always will be.